Half a month after Barcellus received the peasant representatives, the peasants in Constantinople gradually dispersed. It can be seen that many peasants visited the capital of Constantinople with some kind of reverence, and many of them left their hometowns for the first time in their lives, probably to some of the surrounding towns. Facing the thousand-year-old city of Constantinople, the peasants were more in awe.

Keeping in mind the impression of this great city, the peasants gradually dispersed, also leaving their traces in Constantinople. Even in winter, the smell of defecation in the city is so strong that you can't help but pay attention. At least let Sheila recall the taste of Constantinople as a child. It's really both nostalgic and disgusting. The city's sanitation staff cleaned up with masks on their faces unhappy, and as the peasants returned to their hometowns, Constantinople finally began to return to normal.

The Europa grain ships arrived in Constantinople several more times, bringing with them large quantities of grain and chicken. Sheila's family now has chicken issued by the imperial court to military families at every meal, although these chickens are sometimes chicken legs, sometimes chicken breasts, sometimes chicken offal, and sometimes simply chicken racks. The food supply has also regained its quantity, but half of it is pumpkin and potatoes. The old neighbors, who had not come to ask for food recently, were very dissatisfied with taking care of the sick peasants, but they still went to the office to join the team of caregivers. The province of Europa also paid them as agreed, and in addition to the income from helping Sheila promote pumpkin and potato cooking methods, even the widow's aunt's kitchen was piled up with a lot of food.

Sheila hasn't been visiting much these days, but has compiled her information for this time. I work in the office during the day, and I go to my father's study to summarize at night. Daddy and the scholars followed Tiberius into the Preparatory Committee and became a member. Sheila had never seen her father look so high-spirited, and it was clear that so many years of academic life had not erased his vision of realizing his ideals. Because of the various meetings, Daddy is often away from home, and Sheila also enjoys the quiet of the large study, researching and summarizing her own ideas and ideas.

Seeing that Christmas Day was approaching, Sheila suddenly received an invitation from the nobles. Although she didn't really want to go, Sheila also wanted to go out for a walk, so she went to the appointment in the inviter's carriage. As soon as she entered, she noticed that many people were looking at her. Walking inside, these people did not look away, but more people looked over and exchanged their heads.

The organizer was a big nobleman who had just returned from out of town. He quickly greeted Sheila and said to Sheila with a smile: "May I ask Your Excellency Sheila, are you really ready to participate in the election?" ”

"Councillor? Election? Sheila was stunned. After nearly a month, these two terms are no longer unfamiliar, and this time the Senate, the House of the People and the City Council were rebuilt, and His Excellency Tiberius did not think that it should be completely retro, only the name was retro, but the mode of election was more similar to that of the former Republic of Venice.

The Senate of the Roman Republic was a mixed system of hereditary, recommended, and military merit awards. The Lok Sabha, or People's Assembly, is a system in which citizens volunteer to run for election, and the city council is similar to the Lok Sabha. The new system proposed by Tiberius gave citizenship according to taxes, and citizens had the right to vote and to be elected.

Originally, citizens signed up for the election on their own, but under the current circumstances, the first election adopted a system of election, and even the citizen system did not have a shadow, and the local people in each region elected people with high moral integrity and clean family background to participate in the election. After all, the citizenship system alone will take years to complete, and the first conference must be established to solve the food problem as soon as possible.

"What does this MP mean?" Sheila asked, puzzled.

"Oh! Sir Sheila, are you still hiding it from us? "The big nobleman's face showed a playful smile of 'stop pretending'.

Sheila is not qualified to be called Your Excellency, she can be called Girl, Miss, and will be called Madame in the future, but Your Excellency is to give powerful male titles, listening to the great nobleman say this, Sheila feels that this matter is only beyond her imagination. Just in confusion, the great nobleman lowered his voice and said: "Sheila, do you know how many people in Constantinople have elected you as a councilor?" ”

Sheila shook her head alarmedly, she hadn't heard of it at all, but it was just a casual thing the old neighbors said that they wanted Sheila to run for Congress.

"I've heard that you're in the top twenty of all the people who have been elected." The great nobleman whispered: "You are also very high in the list of veteran candidates that have already been proposed. ”

Sheila froze, she really didn't know about it. In inexplicable panic and indescribable surprise, Sheila heard the great nobleman whisper: "Miss Sheila, to be honest, I am willing to support you. Yi Sifan is my cousin-in-law, I came to his house some time ago, he admires Miss Sheila very much, and always says that you are very capable, much more capable than many men. He is willing to support you, and so am I. And I have a lot of things to ask Miss Sheila, and I hope you will come to my house more often. Well, let's not talk about it, a lot of people want to get to know you, why don't you have a drink and eat something first? The next step is not easy. ”

At the banquet that followed, Sheila had to get to know men and women, some of whom seemed to have an impression, and many more of them had never met at all. Either way, they showed considerable enthusiasm. And there are many questions about the Senate and the House of the People, which have been annihilated for hundreds of years.

After the exhausting ball, Sheila came home and collapsed on the couch. But it was only her body that was tired, but her spirit was extraordinarily excited. The nobles didn't know much about the new system proposed by Tiberius, and Hira didn't know much about it, but she knew much more than the nobles. The most important thing is that Sheila finds that the attitudes of these nobles have changed, and they are really well-informed. Sheila herself didn't know that the various Cicelius had been promoted to become the military judge of his legion.

This is a very delicate role, and there are military judges among the officers below the commander and lieutenant general in each legion. However, military judges do not preside over the military, but deal with all kinds of military discipline and legal issues. These are all positions that can only be held by military personnel who are very influential in the military, or have a high status. My brother was promoted from an ordinary squad leader to a military judge, what happened? Sheila didn't think that the people in the legion knew that her father had become a member of the preparatory committee, so she deliberately wanted to pat her father on the back.

While she was thinking, her mother came out, and Sheila told her what she had heard about her brother. Mother is also a mixed bag, the military judge is indeed a very important position, I heard that if you do a good job, you can become a captain if you are vacant. There are ten brigades in one corps, and the rank of captain is only below the lieutenant general. If things do turn out this way, the future of Cicelius is completely bright. He was only twenty-two years old, and maybe even thirty years old when he became a lieutenant general or even a corps commander. At the age of forty you can become a general.

But Sheila's mother is not an uninformed woman, she at least knows the truth that the higher you climb, the heavier you fall, and that wanting to be a figure in the center of power means encountering a lot of dangers. This danger is the difference between a storm and a warm breeze compared to the problems encountered by a scholar with a modest income.

Sheila agrees with her mother, and she thinks her brother's promotion is too strange and decides to write to ask. As for her own affairs, Sheila wanted to stop talking. She wanted to see this as a joke, and it was not surprising that there were people who verbally supported Sheila, who had helped her neighbors, promoted pumpkin and potato practices, and was even organizing the production and promotion of cheap cutlery. But none of this is a big deal, Sheila's knowledge of the court is only through the province of Europa, and even the nobility does not know much about the operation of the court. If they had known about Tiberius's proposal, their reaction would have been very different from what they are now.

With that, Sheila went to sleep. The next day, when the alarm clock rang, she struggled to her feet and went to work with ten thousand unhappy people. There are more toilets in the courtyard of the provincial office, and the management is strict, and the smell in the air is finally gone. It's just that the trampled lawn can't be restored in the winter.

Sheila sat in her seat after signing in, and yesterday she felt that her candidacy was ridiculous. But after a night passed, Sheila found that her thinking had changed a little, she didn't particularly want to run, but the guys she saw these days were really muddy and couldn't support the wall, and Sheila didn't feel worse than those people. While he was thinking, Xie Song called Sheila over. When the two met, Xie Song asked directly: "I heard that some citizens of Constantinople have nominated you to run for city council, but those people don't understand what a council is. But I want to ask you, do you want to run? ”

"Can you choose?" Sheila asked, puzzled, "How do I seem to remember that the councillor must be a man?" ”

"Hmm." Xie Song nodded, very satisfied with Sheila's reaction. "You're right, in the previous system, parliamentarians had to be men."

"Then what do you ask me for?" Sheila decided to put an end to this trouble, her father was a member of the Parliamentary Election Committee, and if her father knew about it, he would not have agreed.

"I asked you if you wanted to run." Xie Song is still the same question as before.

Sheila looked at Xie Song and thought in her heart. With the power of the legislators she knew, perhaps the province of Europa wanted Sheila to be a worthy person within the Eastern Roman Empire. But Sheila can accept being the comprador of the office, but she doesn't want to be a puppet manipulated by the province of Europa.

"Don't worry, we're not going to let you be a puppet." Xie Song said with a smile.